Australia Day - 2017

I read recently that Aust. Day fireworks will be banned in 

Fremantle W.A. over indigineous cultural sensitivities. For many Aboriginal Australians it is indeed a day of sadness and dispossession. Some people say Australia Day should be called Federation Day, being 1st January, 1901 when the British Parliament passed legislation for 6 colonies to govern in their own right.

What do members of YLC think about this? We can still have a whop-up party, tone down the fireworks, to save money, still grant citizenship ceremonies.? Maybe this will be accepted by those that say , "We were Invaded?'

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Independence Day of the United States, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth in the U.S., is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence 240 years ago in 1776 on July 4 by the Continental Congress. It declared that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and were no longer part of the British Empire.[1]

Any fool or at least most fools would see the difference between to two days. One is setting up a penal colony and the other is taking nationhood and self rule away from an imperial power.

Australia is still a penal colony but the crims are in Canberra punishing us

 

Here comes another simpleton.

 

The point I was making is both "celebrations" have compelte disregard for the first people as if they never existed or had any rights whatsoever

Anyway - carry on with your crap, par for the course for you

I still use the same name I started with. I have never been banned or suspended. I am not a fraud unlike the obvious examples witnessed at YLC by the desperate and deluded. I stick to the topic at hand most times, not hard. I abide by the rules of YLC which is not hard to do and seeing as membership is free have no grounds for changing those rules if that was my wish. Penal settlement day as opposed to independence day from the colonial yoke, no comparison.

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They have what? Fireworks? 

Now I know why I so rarely visit the city.

January 26, 1788 as most of us know was the date on which Captain Arthur Phillip took formal possession of the colony of New South Wales and raised the British flag for the first time in Sydney Cove. 

I can totally understand how an Aboriginal person feels  about "celebrating" this day and think the date for Australia Day should be changed. The question is what do we then call a day to include everyone? Maybe we need to have suggestions from the general public. 

 

There's nothing wrong with the name "Australia Day". It's just the date that's wrong.

And once we change that, the emphasis will slip away from the creation of Sydney and NSW.

Your failure to understand simple things really puts me off having an interaction with you. "Australia Day", the very term has negative connotations for most Aboriginals, and that seems a good enough reason for changing it.

I wonder if there are any Aboriginal members on this site who would be willing to tell us how they feel. I would find that very interesting.

You're right. I don't understand some of the things you say. But I'm always happy to learn.

What do you think Aboriginal people feel is wrong with the name Australia Day?

Instead of Australia Day which seems to upset the lefties let's have
Magna Carta Day 15th of June To celebrate democracy .
Or is this too close to the Queens Birthday 

Are Aboriginal people lefties?

Or maybe we could celebrate 3rd September . When Parliment defeated the Crown in the English Civil War.at the Battle of Worcester .
Or 30 January when the King was beheaded and England became a republic 

I like Wattle Day - 1st September.

Obviously Australian. Won't offend anyone.

Reported

Wattle day will offend all those with a lisp

It's revealing that when confronted with insurmountable evidence against their position, the conservatives revert to either abuse, or stupid comments, or both.

what evidence ?

Stupid comment

ok - no evidence

case closed

Oh bravo...Can we start the fireworks now....:)

With pleasure...

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